As fall athletics returned in full force, an important piece was missing for many MCPS schools. Only 16 of the 25 schools had an assigned athletic trainer. Of the remaining nine schools all but two had a vendor contact in place, meaning as soon as a trainer became available with the company they are contracted to, they would have a trainer. Einstein and Northwood, however, did not have a contract in place that planned to supply them with trainers until after the sports season started. Einstein now has a hired trainer who started near the end of the fall athletics season, but the solution came too late for many fall sports athletes. 

Julia Fay

After winning the SEC soccer championship in Orange Beach, Ala., Vanderbilt senior goalie Sarah Fuller and her team celebrated with a swim in the Gulf of Mexico. Little did Fuller know that only six days later she would be making history as the first female to play in an NCAA Power Five football game. 

By Julianne Garnett

Professional sports team are collectively taking a stand around the nation using their platforms to their advantage, striking out and protesting systemic racial injustice because of the innocent American lives being taken by racial profiling/assault/and murder (ironically) by the individuals meant to keep us safe.

By Maddie Zimmer